Nostalgia & History > Emil at the Point again

I believe this train is approaching the same spot where photographer Emil Albrecht shot another train in this thread: ( Emil Albrecht shoots the cut-off! ). I think there might be a more correct ETT location here, but all I know is Promontory Point.

1. 2. & 3. SP 9337 on a manifest at Promontory Point, UT on August 9, 1975. Caboose # is unknown.
Three original slides by Emil Albrecht, from the late James W. Watson collection.

Thanks for looking back!
Lance Garrels
santafe199
Remembering the late Emil Albrecht



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/15/25 06:19 by santafe199.

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Promontory Point is the correct timetable location.  Here's a Google Street View of the east end of the siding, which the train would have been approaching in Emil's third photo:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/99skofuDRhvKEECH8

mike woodruff
north platte ne

Nice photos from a unique location not often seen.
Regards, Jim Evans

Thanks for that link, Mike! I wouldn't have thought there would be a 'Street View' possible, so I didn't even try... :^/

Lance

santafe199 Wrote:
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> Thanks for that link, Mike! I wouldn't have
> thought there would be a 'Street View' possible,
> so I didn't even try... :^/
>
> Lance

That Google Maps driver was pretty wild; you can do "street view" all the way across the fill/lake.

Man that was a very clear day. Beautiful.
JB

Wonder if all those box cars in the first photo are part of the "rip-rap fleet"? I can't remember exactly when SP did that on the fill.

x6924w Wrote:
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> Wonder if all those box cars in the first photo
> are part of the "rip-rap fleet"? I can't remember
> exactly when SP did that on the fill.

Although it was very likely those cars were in ‟rip-rap” service for M-o-W then (@ E end of
Bridge, M/p 752.9 near E end of original pile trestle for the Lucin ‟cutoff” – see 25th listing
under ‟Stations” for the Ogden Subdivision near p.7’s center in SP’s Sacramento Division 
employee TimeTable № 4 eff.04/27/1975, ref.:  
https://wx4.org/to/foam/sp/maps/perryETT/1975-04-27SP_Sacramento4-SheldonPerry.pdf),
SP’s major repairs and rebuilding of the Lucin ‟cutoff” causeways began during 1983-84
after the lake rose rapidly (over 3 ft. in 1982).

Emil’s position was just-over ¼ mi. NNW from the actual locale of the Promontory Point 
feature itself (ref.:  https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#16/41.2079/-112.4323).  He
was near Lat.:  41° 12' 28" N;  Long.:  112° 25' 54" W in the S½-NE¼-NE¼ of Section 32,
T-6-N, R-5-W, S.L.M. w/in the SE part of Box Elder County, UT.  SP’s Promontory Point was
@ M/p 758.5, near where that E/b’s head-end was in image #3 (w/unidentified caboose, ref.
5th listing under ‟Additional Stations” on the lower-Rt. of that same p.7 in SP employee tt
№ 4).



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Lance,
Three WINNERS!  That last one is the coup de gras, thanks for sharing.

Kent in CArmel Valley

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